On 29 April 2026, our annual career fair, PhD Career Day, will take place! We look forward to welcoming you to Aarhus University to meet our many PhD students and postdocs as well as many inspiring companies.
Are you a company and would like to participate in our career fair 2026, you can sign up here.
Are you PhD student or postdoc and would like to participate, you can sign up here. In the meantime, feel free to explore the companies and organisations that will take part in PhD Career Day 2026 below (updated continuously)
We look forward to seeing you at PhD Career Day 2026.
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PhD Career Day is an annual event where you as a PhD student or junior researcher can learn more about your career prospects by meeting company representatives face-to-face, and getting an understanding of what the companies stand and look for.
Who we are
Arla Foods is a big global dairy company with approximately 20,000 employees across 30 countries and over 8,450 dairy farm owners in Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Thus, Arla is a cooperative, a global business, a family of brands and thousands of people working together across markets. While each of us have important individual roles to play, from farmers to marketeers, food scientists to distributors, it is our collective strength that sets us apart as a company that's more cooperative than corporate.
What we do and why we do it
In Arla Foods, our research and new product development teams work together to build science, new technologies, local knowledge, consumer tastes and regulatory frameworks to develop new product formulations for launch e.g., into a new market. At Arla Innovation Centre, along with product development teams in the UK, Sweden, China, Germany, Netherlands, Finland and the US, we passionately innovate from farm to plate to create the future dairy products to the world. We do this with state-of-the-art science and consumer labs and a 2000 m^2 pilot plant, with more flexibility to install any type of process needed for our innovation projects. Our researchers are strongly connected, and make innovation happen, all across Arla and its markets by working closely with suppliers, universities, and specialist technology companies.
Working as a PhD at Arla Foods
As a PhD in Arla Innovation you are a part of transforming knowledge of food science, technology and nutrition into business opportunities for Arla. This is done both by using current scientific knowledge but also by being part of conducting projects to gain new knowledge. In addition, within Arla Innovation we have numerous external research projects aimed to drive science forward and resulting in findings that are useful for the dairy sector. At the Arla Innovation Centre, you become part of a multicultural organization with a great working atmosphere. What we are looking for in terms of new colleagues and collaborators are individuals that are self-driven, curious, smart-working and bring creative ideas.
Astora Consulting is a Life Science IT consulting firm that helps pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies successfully navigate digital transformation, regulatory compliance, and process optimization.
Our consultants come from diverse academic and professional backgrounds - including life sciences, public health, biomedicine, business, and technology. This allows us to bridge the gap between scientific expertise and IT, translating complex scientific processes into effective digital and operational solutions.
We support organizations in digitalizing clinical and regulatory processes, implementing advanced IT solutions, and optimizing workflows to accelerate drug development and healthcare innovation. By combining deep life science knowledge with technological and business expertise, we enable our clients to work more efficiently, reduce complexity, and make better data-driven decisions.
At Astora Consulting, we believe in a people-first culture, strong collaboration, and continuous personal and professional growth. We create an environment where curious, driven individuals can thrive, while making a meaningful and lasting impact on the life science industry.
Driven by the potential of an electrified society, and powered by the opportunities of going digital, Danfoss is engineering technology that helps the world to get much more out of less. With the promise of quality, reliability and innovation deeply rooted in their DNA, they deliver an extensive range of products and solutions across their business segments.
Danish Technological Institute, founded in 1906, is a leading research and technology company, providing consultancy and services across various business domains. We are 1,100 specialists who work closely with companies and knowledge institutions, with our mission to develop the Danish business community and provide benefits to society at large.
When working as a PhD candidate at the Danish Technological Institute, you are the specialist in your field, and you have the opportunity to explore and expand your expertise even further, both within your specific domain and through interdisciplinary collaboration. You will experience a great deal of responsibility and freedom to create your own tasks, based on your professional qualifications and curiosity.
Join us and become a part of a committed community that aims to develop technologies and innovative solutions to ensure a better future.
Danske Commodities is a tech-driven energy trading company that trades power and gas across +40 markets. Working for a viable energy future, we use our trading expertise to connect producers and large-scale consumers to wholesale markets.
HØIBERG is a European Intellectual Property firm, which counsels on all aspects of intellectual property rights including patents and IP strategies. We have both start-ups and multi-national companies as clients. A patent consultant ensures that the inventions of today become the products of tomorrow. We ensure that innovative ideas reach the market by giving inventors the right to their ideas. At HØIBERG, 90% of our Patent Attorneys have a PhD degree. You need a scientific degree to become a Patent Consultant - NOT a law degree. The job combines scientific skills with new knowledge on IP law and business development, so you are constantly challenged, occasionally also within your own scientific field.
At Kamstrup, you'll join a close-knit community that genuinely cares about each other, fostering connections both in and out of the workplace. Our team is a diverse blend of innovators, dreamers, and doers, driven by a passion to challenge the status quo and find better solutions. Together, we push the boundaries of what's possible to secure clean water and energy for people worldwide.
With nearly 80 years of experience, we lead in technological advancements in intelligent electricity, water, heat, and cooling solutions. We empower our customers to make smarter decisions and inspire their communities with intelligent tools and data.
Our smart metering solutions help utilities reduce water loss and increase energy efficiency, ensuring access to clean water and a sustainable energy future. At Kamstrup, we believe in making a meaningful impact every day.
Kamstrup is a world leading manufacturer of system solutions for smart energy and water metering. They believe no one should have to question their access to clean water or the prospect of a sustainable energy future which is why their purpose is to ensure clean water and power to as many people as possible.
KMC – 90 years of know how
The company KMC supplies potato-based ingredients to food industry clients throughout the world. KMC is a cooperative, owned by Danish potato growers, developing, producing and exporing potato-based ingredients for food, feed and other products for more than 9o countries. We have full control over the enire supply chain. We have a guaranteed supply of quality-controlled raw materials with rigorously documents origin, which also helps us boost the quality of our ingredients. The products KMC Applications are used in cheese, sugar confectionary, plant-based alternatives, dressings, snacks, noodles and more. Our R&D focus is on natural polymer chemistry, food technology and pretty much any other innovative technical capability we can apply to tackling our customers’ practical requirements and commercial priorities better.
How will a career as management consultant with McKinsey & Company be different from academia? Every McKinsey engagement demands the same qualities you need to succeed in academia: strong problem-solving skills, intellectual curiosity, and the drive to achieve results. The difference is, at McKinsey you’ll be working with and presenting your findings to business leaders. McKinsey consultants learn to solve problems quickly and make fast decisions, even when they don’t have all the information about a particular subject. Consultants with PhDs say one of the biggest challenges - and most attractive aspects - of a career with McKinsey is this shift in thinking. In the academic setting, you are diving deep into a subject, often spending years gathering and analyzing data. At McKinsey, consultants learn to work with the most important information, whittle a problem down to its core, and offer a solution that helps a client make better decisions, often when it’s not a clear-cut, easy answer.
Novonesis - We’re here to better our world with biology
We are 10,000 people worldwide whose expertise spans more than 30 different industries. All around the world our biosolutions (microbes, enzymes, functional proteins) already create value for thousands of customers and benefit the planet. Our biosolutions enable feeding and fueling the world more sustainably, from healthy and sustainable nutrition to biofuel. Our biosolutions also reduce the use of fossil-based resources, chemicals, energy and water. And this is just the beginning.
QIAGEN offers Sample to Insight solutions, products and services that enable customers worldwide to advance science, improve patient outcomes and gain valuable insights from biological samples.
QIAGEN Digital Insights, the bioinformatics business of QIAGEN, is the leading provider of genomic and clinical knowledge, analysis, and interpretation tools and services for scientists and clinicians. With over 25 years of industry experience, 90,000 users worldwide, more than 100,000 citations in scientific papers, over 3 million profiled patient cases, and over 40 billion scientific data points, QIAGEN Digital Insights delivers the omics knowledge to understand the unique biology of the disease and how to target the disease for Precision Medicine to Personalized Care.
Vestas
Aarhus University's Alumni Network is for all alumni from Aarhus University (AU), including alumni from educational institutions that have merged with AU. You become an alumnus when you graduate from Aarhus University, in other words when you hold a Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD, professional Master’s or diploma degree from the university.The mission is to create life-long relationships with our alumni that create value for the alumni, students, staff, AU and society.
As a member of the Aarhus University Alumni Network you will receive:
AUPA works politically and strategically to improve well-being and conditions for PhDs across the five faculties at Aarhus University. They discuss the university's development, new or existing solutions, and how to improve them.
There are 1,000 good reasons to become a member of a union and an unemployment fund. These include job search assistance, affordable insurance, and the right to unemployment benefits.
Welcome to the Danish Association of Masters and PhDs (DM) and the Master’s unemployment insurance fund (MA).
We are here to guide and help you to get off to a good start in your working life. And we’re here to help in case you at some point lose your job.
The Junior Researcher Association aims to improve the working conditions for Postdocs and Assistant Professors, and works closely with the Aarhus University leadership and administration to achieve the best possible environment, making Aarhus University a more attractive place for postdoctoral training. We also organize relevant events and seminars for JRs.
